Aï Keïta
Aï Keïta Yara is a Burkinabè actress[1][2] who played the lead role in the 1986 film Sarraounia.
Career[edit]
Her first movie was Sarraounia (1986), where she played Sarraounia, the queen the movie is named after.[3] Sarraounia won several awards,[4] after which she was able to act in more movies and television shows, including the 2004 comedy-drama Tasuma.[5] She has appeared in about 30 films[1] including the 1995 film Haramuya[6] and the 2018 film The Three Lascars (French: Les trois lascars). [7]
As of 2011, she was working as a civil servant processing medical records at Yalgado National Hospital Center in Ouagadougou.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Keïta is married with two children, and speaks Fula, Dyula, Mooré, Zarma and French.[1]
Her maternal grandfather was born in Senegal, before travelling to Burkina Faso with his first wife.[1] When he arrived in Burkina Faso he married a woman from the village of Mardaga in Tapoa Province who later became Keïta's maternal grandmother.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Coulidiati, Patrick (10 September 2011). "Cinéma :Aï Keita / Yara : Comédienne". ArtistesBF (in French). Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ "6e édition des JCFA : Aï Keïta Yara entre joie et déception". Burkina24.com - Actualité du Burkina Faso 24h/24 (in French). 7 March 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ Ellerson, Beti (2000). Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film Video and Television. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. ISBN 9780865437135.
- ^ Hondo, Med; Pfaff, Françoise (1997-04-26). "Sarraounia: An Epic of Resistance". Matatu. 19 (1): 151–158. doi:10.1163/18757421-90000262. ISSN 1875-7421 – via Brill.
- ^ Quist-Arcton, Ofeibea (2001-02-26). "Africa: Ai Keita Yara - From Queen to Soothsayer, From Celluloid to Video". allAfrica. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
- ^ Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004. (2007). United States: Indiana University Press. p323
- ^ "Casting". Les trois lascars (PDF). FESPACO 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
